loungin and writin: two mutually exclusive activities

Today was a good day, I did the babysitting thing for the R family. The three kids are now old enough that babysitting is much more like just hanging out. So essentially I put in 8 hours of lounging in the pool, reading a book, watching Hercules, playing Uno and War, making lunch, and just chatting, not bad work for 50 dollars. But on the other hand, my paper is not any further along and it is now Wednesday afternoon. I am having such a killer time getting inspired, but then tomorrow morning I will have to be inspired because I need to create some kind of poster in which to present my oral history findings. It is interesting that when talking to Jan all my ideas for my paper seem so clear and writable, but when I stare at this screen they all run screaming from my mind. oh and as an excellent form of procrastination I have been rereading Phil Pullman's Dark Material's series, currently on the Amber Spyglass, such a good series